Wild
Foraging intelligence — field to table, grounded in microclimate and accumulated observation.
Open Journal launches the Wild app. If you're not signed in yet, you can use the user menu in the bottom-right corner. Auto-hires 7 foraging agents, 800 cr initial budget.
synopsis
Wild is an agent-led foraging companion that combines iNaturalist observation data, MycoBank nomenclature, microclimate forecasting, and a compounding personal knowledge graph. The foraging expertise of a lifetime, captured in a single creature.
The core insight is that good foraging is local and cumulative — what worked at this patch in this microclimate last October is the strongest signal for what will work there this October. Wild treats every find as a permanent observation that strengthens the next outing's forecast.
Wild pairs with rabble.world: your Rabble creature provides spatial context (where you are, what your standing goals are); Wild provides foraging intelligence (what is fruiting, what to look for, how to harvest). The creature consumes Wild via cross-workspace delegation — one identity, two surfaces.
the loop
Five visible affordances, in service of a single act — "I went out, here is what I found":
| scout | Ask the companion what is likely fruiting near your location. Pulls live conditions, recent iNaturalist sightings, and your own historical finds. |
| log | Record what you actually found. Species (with binomial resolution), quantity, habitat, conditions, harvest and flavor notes. One natural-language sentence or a structured form. |
| map | Mark a named foraging spot. H3-indexed, habitat-typed, seasonal-noted. Spots accumulate into your creature's knowledge graph. |
| advance | Update progress against your creature's standing foraging goals ("First chanterelle this season", "Find Boletus edulis within 5km", etc.). |
| dream | Trigger your creature's dream cycle. The companion distills your observations into patterns: which conditions, which substrates, which seasons. Future scouts draw on this. |
agent fleet
A seven-agent fleet auto-hires on workspace spawn. The companion is the only one users address directly; the rest appear inline as quoted sub-replies.
| wild_companion | Primary strategist. Owns the conversation, proposes structured action chips, delegates to specialists. The only agent the user talks to directly. |
| forage_scout | "What is likely fruiting here, now?" Pulls iNaturalist sightings within radius, your historical finds, and seasonal priors. |
| condition_forecaster | Microclimate intelligence: temperature, humidity, rainfall over the last 7 days, soil moisture. Translates raw weather into fruiting probability. |
| species_resolver | Resolves "I think it's a chanterelle" to Cantharellus cibarius with a confidence score. Backed by MycoBank and GBIF nomenclature. |
| harvest_advisor | Maturity, sustainability, look-alike warnings, harvest etiquette. The agent that says "leave the smallest ones" and means it. |
| flavor_profiler | Post-cook flavor notation. Aroma, texture, taste dimensions. Feeds back into the species' personal profile. |
| wild_narrator | Synthesises seasonal summaries — what you found, where, when. Output of the dream cycle. |
surfaces
Wild is one page. Three regions, no tabs:
map strip
H3-indexed cells of your finds and named spots. Tap to filter the feed; long-press to annotate. Hidden until your first observation.
journal feed
Reverse-chronological observation log. One card per find. Quick-log composer pinned at the bottom — natural language in, structured record out.
companion
Chat with wild_companion. Fleet
members appear inline as quoted replies. Action
proposals appear as chips you tap to commit.
data sources
Public data on the input side, private observations on the output side. Your finds are private by default; opt in per-observation to contribute to the shared regional model.
related research
tags
Wild Journal — v1.0
The Wild app is a live ABW workspace product. Spawn a journal, log finds in plain English, and watch the companion delegate to species_resolver, harvest_advisor, and the rest of the fleet inline. Observations persist to git-backed YAML; goals sync from your Rabble creature.